Zenzi M. Griffin studies the processes that allow people to express anything using spoken language. She has been particularly concerned with how people select and order words and phrases, and the way that they manage (and mismanage) the timing of word retrieval and the articulation of speech. Current projects address the retrieval of personal names and a huge project on language impairment in Spanish-English bilinguals in collaboration with Drs. Elizabeth Peña and Lisa Bedore.